6 Level up your API
This chapter covers
- How authentication and authorization work in serverless applications
- Implementing authentication and authorization in your serverless application
- Identifying your users through social identity providers
Authentication and authorization are one of many challenges you face when developing distributed applications. The challenge lies in distributing the authorized user, along with its permissions, across all application distributed services and properly integrating third-party authentications.
This chapter shows you how to implement authentication and authorization in your serverless application by enabling it for Aunt Maria’s customers and their pizza orders. You’ll learn the difference between authentication ...
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